Music CD - Hot Club of Cowtown: Tall Tales

	Music CD: Tall Tales Artist: Hot Club of Cowtown List Price: $17.98 Our Price: $12.90 Your Save: $ 5.08 ( 28% ) Availability: Usually ships in 4 to 7 weeks Manufacturer: Hightone Records
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Tracks: 1. Draggin' The Bow 2. Emily 3. Darling You And I Are Through 4. I Can't Tame The Wild Woman 5. When I Lost You 6. You Can't Take It With You 7. Wildcat 8. Always And Always 9. I Laugh When I Think I Cried Over You 10. Joe-Bob Rag 11. There'll Be Some Changes Made 12. Red Hot Mama 13. Bonaparte's Retreat 14. Polkadots And Moonbeams 15. Sally Goodin'
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0012928810425 Label: Hightone Records Manufacturer: Hightone Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Hightone Records Release Date: 1999-08-03 Studio: Hightone Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Hot Club of Cow Town Comment: I first heard the group "Hot Club of Cow Town" in Aspen some years ago. My friends and I followed them to the Tractor Tavern in Seattle a few years later, keeping this extraordinary group in our sights ever since. Elena Fremerman (sp?) makes a violin do things that certain currently influential groups would lose control of basic body functions over. Her interpretation of classic folk, country swing, show tunes and other great music has been honored recently by other great artists. I've heard her voice described variously as "clear" and "smoky". I understand both descriptions, embrace them, and add "and a whole lot more." I recommend the music of Hot Club of Cow Town and Elena Fremerman to people who like the genres, "country swing", "Show tunes","folk", (at this point I'm over my head) Just fun music. Customer Rating: Summary: Fun playing, but hold the vocals Comment: Bold, joyous playing, at times precise, at times reckless, make this a treat to listen to. But be prepared for some weak vocals (by two of the three band members). Lovers of old country are not sticklers for staying on key, and know there's a great deal of expressive power in the deliberate roughness of Bill Monroe. Vern Williams and others. But crooning that goes flat provokes more wincing than dancing. Still--a talented and fun group gets my qualified yeehaw. Customer Rating: Summary: This is the best one Comment: Fun swing music and great group. If you are only going to buy one album, this would be my pick. Customer Rating: Summary: HC rocks my world! Comment: This CD is awesome! It's by the nicest and best group ever! They were just in my town and I performed with them and they are the coolest! They need to keep turning out spectacular CDs like they already have! HC rocks! Customer Rating: Summary: music for the happy side of your soul Comment: I dunno, like the music a lot, but then i almost like every swing-revivel cd out there. This is the first review i write, i'm writing it because i feel i have to explain why i gave this wonderful cd "only" four stars. Well, thats because i discoverd "andrew bird's bowl of fire" before i've discovered "hot town". Their album, "trills' is kind of above all ratings so i cannot get myself to rating this album as high as theirs. If you like this album, you're gonna adore "thrills". More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: From the first visceral instant when Elana Fremerman drags bow across fiddle, you know Tall Tales is already an improvement over Hot Club of Cowtown's fine debut Swingin' Stampede. New producer Dave Stuckey (formerly of the Dave and Deke Combo) charges every scratch, twang, and pop from this swingin' fiddle-guitar-doghouse bass trio with the tactile punch of a live gig. The result is that the band's virtuoso mix of old-time fiddle tunes, hot jazz, Western swing, and early-century Tin Pan Alley--everything from "Sally Goodin'" to the Burke and Van Heusen standard "Polka Dots and Moonbeams"--finally comes off as gritty as it is sweet and, consequently, better than ever. Tall Tales confirms that this Hot Club is the only emerging swing-revival band to compare favorably to the masters of swing. And, most impressively, when the group expands beyond a trio by adding trumpet and piano (particularly on an original torch song called "When I Lost You"), its bright future comes into clear focus. --David Cantwell